Dictionary

menk en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Mansi (compare Northern Mansi менкв (menkv)).

Meanings

1. (Russia, uncountable) An animal described by the Mansi as a "forest giant", with anatomical features similar to a yeti, said to live in the area of Khantia-Mansia, Russia.
   • A new documentary, “Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives” airing June 1 on the Discovery Channel explores the remote possibility that a “menk” — the Russian^([sic – meaning Mansi]) word for Yeti — may have been responsible. 2014, “Mysterious Deaths Of College Students Blamed On ‘Russian Yeti’”, in Huffington Post:
   • This figure is called menk in Ob-Ugrian folklore and ritual. 1996, Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, page 79:
   • Although doors were jammed shut, the menk burst in with huge birch masks covered with hair made of hay. 1999, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective:

Relateds

sasquatch · abominable snowman · yowie · Bigfoot

Synonyms

Russian yeti · yeti

Translations (2)

ru менкв (unidentified yeti-like animal) · pl menk (unidentified yeti-like animal)